To be intensely in love with someone in Peru, to the point of not being able to think about anything else. It comes from "camote" (sweet potato) and describes that obsessive love that has you trapped and texting at 3 AM.

A sandwich — the local, endearing way they say it in Peru and Argentina. Every country adapted this borrowed word to their own accent, and this version stuck with warm, everyday charm.

A cell phone in all of Latin America, the device without which modern humanity can't survive five minutes. In Spain they say "móvil," but south of the border it's celular, end of discussion.

A small farm or plot of cultivated land in Peru, Argentina, and Chile. From Quechua, a rural property where you sow and harvest with your hands in the earth, passed down through generations.